Calendar

All Topics (January 22 through March 2)

Thursday, January 22

• 5:00 PM The Death of Truth: AI, the Golem, and Jewish Bioethics.

Friday, January 23

• 2:30 PM Greening in the Garden: How Translation Transforms English

Monday, January 26

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: Regulators as the Hidden Gatekeepers of Innovation in Africa with Jonathan Greenacre

Tuesday, January 27

• 4:00 PM WIP in Ancient Philosophy: Robin Weiss

Wednesday, January 28

• 12:30 PM Following the Gold Road: Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai with Fallou Ngom and Gana Ndiaye

Friday, January 30

• 12:00 PM Boston Poetics Workshop: Professor Sandra Lim, "Ars Poetica"
• 2:30 PM Translation as Kaijuology

Wednesday, February 4

• 8:30 AM Teacher Workshop: Teaching Hard History for Elementary Learners with Primary Source
• 4:00 PM The AI Free Classroom

Friday, February 6

• 1:00 PM Community Voices: Building Stronger Partnerships Between Academia and Community
• 2:30 PM Translation as Problem-Solving

Saturday, February 7

• 1:30 PM WIP workshop for grad students

Monday, February 9

• All Day Teach East Africa Week 2026
• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Rethinking Maternalism: Motherhood, Power, and Embodiment in Côte d’Ivoire” with Elizabeth Jacob

Wednesday, February 11

• 6:00 PM Legacies of Arab Civilizations

Thursday, February 12

• 9:00 AM 2026 Conference on the Jewish Left
• 4:00 PM Learning from Japan: Expos Past, Present and Future with Angus Lockyer
• 7:00 PM Global Read Webinar with award-wining author Jordan Ifueko

Friday, February 13

• 2:30 PM Cannibal Translation VS AI: A Historia Verdadera

Saturday, February 14

• 3:00 PM Love and Chocolate

Friday, February 20

• 2:30 PM The Art of Getting Nowhere: On Translating Kafka's Diaries

Monday, February 23

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series "Regulators as the hidden gatekeepers of innovation in Africa"

Wednesday, February 25

• 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: Discussing Dream Count by Chimamanda Adichie

Friday, February 27

• 3:30 PM Exploring Traditional Korean Music through K-Pop

Monday, March 2

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Re-analysis of the BU/University of Naples Orientale Excavations at Bieta Giyorgis, Aksum, 1993-2003” with Kathryn Bard